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The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use...
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Penguin
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2008-06-05
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The bible for debaters and their coaches.Nearly every high school and college in America has a debate club and/or a debate team. There are hundreds of competitions at the county and state level, culminating in heated national competitions. Yet, at many high schools and...
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Dk
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2008-06-03
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Look and learn to recall a wealth of everyday vocabulary in Hindi with this intuitive easy-to-use visual language dictionary
Whether it's for business or pleasure, pick up 6,000 key Hindi words and phrases on a range of subjects: from shopping and eating out, to sport...
Editeur :
Dorling Kindersley
Parution :
2008-06-02
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"This book analyses issues of the internet and mass media in a rapidly changing environment. It covers a wide range of fundamentals which will be in effect for a longer time, and reflects the benefits of international and interdisciplinary collaboration."
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-05-14
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This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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Honest and precise, everything about writing for children there is to know.'Jane Yolen, authorHere is the comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for an ever-expanding and always exciting children's market, now in a new and updated third edition. -...
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Dk
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2008-05-06
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Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a resource...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-05-01
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This volume of new work by prominent phonologists goes to the heart of current debates in phonological and linguistic theory: should the explanation of phonological variety be constraint or rule-based and, in the light of the resolution of this question, how in the mind...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-01
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Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-01
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This book presents a collection of accounts by internationally renowed experts on current techniques in the instrumental investigation of speech and disorders of speech.
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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In clear, congenial style Barry Blake explains how language works. He describes the make-up of words and how they're built from sounds and signs and put together in phrases and sentences. He examines the dynamics of conversation and the relations between the sound and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-24
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The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of 'intuitive' and 'real life' sources of data.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-17
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Written by a team of veteran scholars and exciting emerging talents, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies maps the field internationally, drawing out regional differences in the way that systematic intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been translated into an...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-04-16
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Programming for Linguists: Java (TM) Technology for Language Researchers is a practical introduction to programming using the JavaProgramming Language for linguists and related language professionals....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program presents accessible, cutting edge research on an enduring and fundamental question confronting all linguistic inquiry – the respective roles of derivation and representation. Presents accessible, cutting edge...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Generative Syntax
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This book is an introduction to the rudiments of Perl programming. It provides the general reader with an interest in language with the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language. Exposes the general reader with an interest...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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With topics ranging from language death to sign language, Language, Frogs and Savants offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of linguistics. Written by one of the most senior figures in linguistics. Features fascinating topics ranging from language death to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist Program, and provides readers with a critical understanding of these, helping...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky's never-before-publishedOptimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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